b'VAST NewsCONSTRUCTIONMessage From VAST Vice President Mark ReavesSEMINARVAST will be hosting the 2022 Spring Construction Seminar for all clubs via Zoom again this year. There will be two dates for the Spring Construction Seminar. The first meeting will be on Thursday, May 5 from 6 p.m to 8 p.m. and the second will be Saturday, May 14 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.If there are any questions, please let us know. We look forward to seeing you on May 5 or May 14.PHOTO CONTESTSix winners will get a VAST shirt and their photo published in the magazine. First place receives a TMA for next year and the cover shot of the Fall 2022 issue. Hello fellow snowmobilers andtalking to them, it was all over. Upload photos to: VAST members. I was recentlySoon I was out signing trails, vtvast.org/photocontest.html or emailappointed to fill the remainder ofhelping deck bridges and the rest to editor@vtvast.org with the subjectthe vice presidents term as Jeffis history.PHOTO CONTEST. Minimum 2 MB inFay has been appointed presidentSince my first contact with the file size required.following the unexpected passingBarre Town Thunder Chickens, of Tim Mills. Tim was a friend andIve been very active in the mentor who helped me understand INSURANCE YOU NEED, how to effectively lead ansnowmobiling community. I was the membership director and COVERAGE YOU TRUST. organization as large and complexclub director for the Thunder as VAST. His leadership andChickens, and for the last 10 Best Snowmobile Insurance Rates in VT.presence will be missed by VASTyears the Washington County Get Your ID Cards Instantly! and a long list of family, friends andalternate director and finally colleagues. My condolences go outcounty director. While alternate to Angel, Silver, Hunter, Auston anddirector and director, Ive served Tims entire family. on the Executive Director Search My journey in snowmobiling worldCommittee, the Personnel started a little differently thanCommittee, the Trails Committee, most. I was born in Georgia, andthe Policy and Bylaws Committee even though my family moved toand have been chair of the Long Vermont when I was 7 years old, IRange Planning Committee. I still did not grow up riding like manylive in same house in Barre Town of you.That all changed when myand my wife still loves riding, as wife and I bought a house next todoes my now 18-year-old son. a trail crossing in Barre Town. ItSnowmobiling is a true family just took one winter of watchingactivity for the Reaves family.people crossing the road in frontAlthough this is not the way I of my house to convince me I hadwould have chosen to become to get in on the fun! Having a wifevice president, it is truly an honor who grew up riding in Middlesexto be entrusted with this position and a boss who entertained me within an organization that means so stories about his weekend ridesmuch to so many people. I look every Monday morning in winter,forward to serving VAST and its just stoked my interest. Once Imembers.approached the guys signing the Insuring Adventures Ahead(518) 725-7000 crossing at my house and startedMark Reaves, VAST Vice Presidentpowersportsinsure.comLate Winter 2022 | 5'